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Job Description
We go beyond the obvious using intelligence passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.
To start a career that is out of the ordinary please apply...
Job Details
Overall responsibility
The primary responsibility is the management of qualitative accounts with a team of professional researchers (if any).
RESPONSIBILITIES
People Leadership
- Assists with recruitment of staff
- Contributes to the qualitative training programs and activities within the office
- Ensures training and career development of staff
- Acts as an advisor and source of technical advice to members of his/her team or office
- Represents qualitative at professional functions and activities
Client Leadership
- Oversees relationships with his/her identified clients ensuring that their needs are being met and that they are receiving appropriate levels of service
- Accountable for client relationships and satisfaction; builds strong rapport and trust; raises client expectations
- Involvement with client projects including interpretation development of recommendations presentation of findings
- Consistently demonstrates a high level of marketing knowledge and applies to successfully forge strong working relationships with clients (advertising knowledge for agency)
- New business development amongst existing clients and identification and development of new business opportunities outside the existing client base
- Acts as a champion for specific qualitative tools/techniques
- Works with global and regional qualitative team on global initiatives and products and the implementation of best practice in the team
Business Leadership
- Manages a team to meet operational and financial targets including: Setting objectives; Conducting performance evaluations; Monitoring of progress of staff under their management
- Overall quality and profitability of the services provided to his/her clients
- Management of revenue budgets set for those clients in collaboration with the GAD or MD estimate and plan budgets resources and profitability of projects. Able to manage P&L for own accounts
- Is able to write successful proposals and win pitches
Thought Leadership
- Ability to develop appropriate and innovative research designs (in line with global qualitative initiatives); provides insights to all stages from proposal preparation design survey study methods and report write-ups
- Helps drive company development such as new approaches improvements to company efficiencies
- Qualitative Tools & Techniques has strong understanding knowledge but more importantly the ability to transform tools to make an insightful and memorable imprint on the organization
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
- At least 10 years of experience in Client Service
- Proven marketing (research) knowledge
- Proven intimate knowledge of qualitative products and philosophy (if being promoted internally)
- Strong skills in leadership and team management including staff development
- Some background and experience in P&L account management
- Demonstrated ability to build strong client relationships and develop business
- Strong presentation and interpersonal communications skills
- Fluency (verbal and written) in English is essential fluency in Mandarin is highly preferred
- Cultural awareness
Location
Shanghai Hengfeng RoadChinaKantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitiveand alsoto support a pay for performance culture where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious using intelligence passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career thats out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health andwell beingis taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool be locally representative drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the worlds leading data insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think feel shop share vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies Kantars 30000 people help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.
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Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
